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Dana's New Halide Classification

This arrangement of mineral species is based on Dana's New Mineralogy by Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig, with sections by Vandall T. King, Illustrations by Eric Dowty, (ISBN: 047119310-0) Copyright © 1997, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.   Follow this link for a short discussion on the Dana Classification Number.

Class 9x Halides without Dana Classification Numbers

Class 9 - Anhydrous and Hydrated Halides

Class 10 - Oxyhalides and Hydroxyhalides

Class 11 - Halide Complexes; Alumino-fluorides

Class 12 - Compound Halides